Strategic Family Therapy Flashcards
What is the main principle of Strategic Family Therapy?
Do something different!
Upon what part of a formulation would Strategic Family Therapy rely?
Maintenance cycle
What part of a formulation does Strategic Family Therapy disregard?
How the problem started.
Where did Strategic Family Therapy develop?
Mental Research Institute, Palo Alto
Explain Strategic Family Therapy.
The trigger of a problem becomes irrelevant when the maintenance cycle goes on for too long. Instead, problems are failed solutions to the initial problem. Therefore, it is important to break the maintenance cycle by doing something different rather than continuing the pattern.
Give examples of interventions of Strategic Family Therapy.
Do something crazy if your child is doing something you don’t like and nothing else works.
Stop reassurance/change how and when it is given.
Make someone do their habits on purpose.
Toss a coin to decide instead of using love as emotional blackmail.
What are limitations of Strategic Family Therapy?
Is it ethical?
Is it just a quick fix?
What is the theory of change that informs Strategic Family Therapy?
Nudge something and see how it jumps - do something differently and see if that has an impact.
What are the basic methods and techniques in Strategic Family Therapy?
Doing something different! Breaking the cycle!
